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| CHAPTER I | |
| The Early Literature | [1] |
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| CHAPTER II | |
| John James Audubon—1780-1851, | [14] |
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| CHAPTER III | |
| Washington Irving—1783-1859, | [28] |
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| CHAPTER IV | |
| James Fenimore Cooper—1789-1851, | [51] |
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| CHAPTER V | |
| William Cullen Bryant—1794-1878, | [69] |
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| CHAPTER VI | |
| William H. Prescott—1796-1859, | [82] |
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| CHAPTER VII | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier—1807-1892, | [96] |
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| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne—1804-1864, | [108] |
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| CHAPTER IX | |
| George Bancroft—1800-1891, | [123] |
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| CHAPTER X | |
| Edgar Allan Poe—1809-1849, | [137] |
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| CHAPTER XI | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson—1803-1882, | [149] |
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| CHAPTER XII | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—1807-1882, | [156] |
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| CHAPTER XIII | |
| John Lothrop Motley—1814-1877, | [174] |
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| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe—1811-1896, | [188] |
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| CHAPTER XV | |
| James Russell Lowell—1819-1892, | [203] |
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| CHAPTER XVI | |
| Francis Parkman—1823-1893, | [219] |
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| CHAPTER XVII | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes—1809-1894, | [234] |